Descendants of Louis Autard and Sybille de Ferrus - France 1340

First Generation

The Kingdom of France in the Middle Ages (roughly, from the 5th
century to the middle of the 15th century; for the period before Hugh Capet's
accession to the throne, see Francia and Carolingian Empire) was marked by the
expansion of royal control by the House of Capet (987–1328); their struggles
with the virtually independent principalities (duchies and counties, such as the
Norman and Angevin regions) that had developed following the Viking invasions
and through the piecemeal dismantling of the Carolingian Empire and West Francia
(843–987); the creation and extension of administrative/state control (notably
under Philip II Augustus and Louis IX) in the 13th century; the rise of the
House of Valois (1328–1589) and the protracted dynastic crisis of the Hundred
Years' War with the Kingdom of England (1337–1453) compounded by the
catastrophic Black Death epidemic (1348), which laid the seeds for a more
centralized and expanded state in the early modern period and the creation of a
sense of French identity.